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Joshua G. Clarke (1780–1828), Mississippi Supreme Court Justice and 1st Chancellor of the Mississippi Chancery Courts: 15,228: 693.4 sq mi (1,796 km 2) Clay County: 025: West Point: CL: 1871: Formed from Chickasaw, Lowndes, Monroe and Oktibbeha Counties as Colfax County [a] Henry Clay (1777–1852), 9th U.S. Secretary of State and U.S ...
Map of Chancery Court districts. Mississippi Chancery Courts are courts of equity. They also have jurisdiction over family law, sanity hearings, wills, and constitutional law. In counties with no County Court, they have jurisdiction over juveniles. Typically, trials are heard without a jury, but juries are permitted. There are 20 districts. [1]
The courtroom at Forrest County Courthouse was packed with family, friends and supporters. ... The former Hattiesburg Municipal Court judge said he would often have 150 cases on the docket in ...
Forrest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,158. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Hattiesburg. [3] The county was created from Perry County in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
"We took considerable time and effort to reflect on the circumstances that unfolded ... to understand the lessons learned that day in moving forward."
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District Courts (1811-1873) County Courts (1682-1722) Court of Chancery (1720-1735) High Court of Errors and Appeals (1780-1808) Court of Admiralty (1697-1789) Register's Courts; Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (1682–1969) Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (1802-1910) Federal courts located in Pennsylvania
The official records of the Freedmen's Bureau indicate that Forrest and "Young Wilson" (who had been convicted of the murders of "one or two negroes" in Louisiana) were major suspects. [27] On March 28, 1873, Grenada County chancery court officer C. P. Lincoln sent a letter to the feds inquiring about possibly arresting Tom Wilson.